The largest humanitarian programmes of 2022 did not distribute goods. They transferred money directly to households, because the shops were open and people knew better than…
In June 2022 Ukraine was formally associated to Horizon Europe, the European Union research and innovation programme. Ukrainian institutions could apply on the same terms as…
The most useful thing a hydro plant does in a modern grid is not generate. It is start and stop within minutes, which nothing else on…
Ukraine's central bank and finance ministry faced a set of textbook-defying conditions in 2022 and produced a stabilisation that most forecasts said was impossible.
Acute surgery saves a life in hours. Rehabilitation determines what that life looks like for the next fifty years, and Ukraine needed far more of it…
The early measures hit banks and technology. In April and June 2022 the European Union went after the revenue itself, with a coal embargo and then…
A town in the Poltava region has been making pots for a very long time, and it survived the twentieth century by becoming a museum of…
Southern Ukraine farmed with irrigation built decades ago. Much of it is now gone, and what replaces it will determine what the region grows.
Early recovery in the Kyiv region did not begin with housing. It began with bridges, power lines and water mains — the things without which nobody…
A greeting for the day, marked in a spring when a great many shirts were a long way from the wardrobe they came out of.
In May 2022 the museum of Hryhorii Skovoroda in Skovorodynivka was destroyed by fire after a strike. The collection had been evacuated in time. The response…
Ukraine introduced local content requirements in public procurement for certain categories. The policy is defensible, the risks are real, and both deserve stating.
A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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